12-letter words containing l, i, p, s
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
- persistently — persisting, especially in spite of opposition, obstacles, discouragement, etc.; persevering: a most annoyingly persistent young man.
- personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personalized — customized
- perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- persulphuric — denoting a type of acid
- pestilential — producing or tending to produce pestilence.
- pestological — relating to pestology
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- phalaenopsis — any of various epiphytic orchids of the genus Phalaenopsis, native to tropical Asia, having clusters of showy, variously colored flowers.
- phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- philadelphus — (Philadelphus) king of Pergamum c159–138 b.c.
- philistinism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
- phillipsburg — a city in NW New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
- philomelides — a king of Lesbos who wrestled and killed every opponent until he himself was defeated by Odysseus.
- philosophies — the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
- philosophise — to speculate or theorize, usually in a superficial or imprecise manner.
- philosophism — spurious or deceitful philosophy.
- philosophist — a person who affects philosophical knowledge
- philosophize — to speculate or theorize, usually in a superficial or imprecise manner.
- phlebotomist — a specialist in phlebotomy.
- phosphatidyl — an atom or group of atoms containing one or more unpaired electrons derived from a phosphatide
- phospholipid — any of a group of fatty compounds, as lecithin, composed of phosphoric esters, and occurring in living cells.
- photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
- photophilous — of or relating to an organism, as a plant, that is receptive to, seeks, or thrives in light.
- photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- phrenologist — a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
- phycologists — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- phylogenesis — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- physiologies — the branch of biology dealing with the functions and activities of living organisms and their parts, including all physical and chemical processes.
- physiologist — a specialist in physiology.
- piano lesson — music class in playing the piano
- pictorialism — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
- pictorialist — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
- pig islander — a New Zealander
- pillow sword — a straight sword of the 17th century.
- pilot signal — a signal, as a flag or light, used to request a pilot.
- pink-slipped — (of an employee) given notice of redundancy
- pisciculture — the breeding, rearing, and transplantation of fish by artificial means.
- piss-elegant — displaying a contrived, often pretentious, sophistication, opulence, etc.
- pitch chisel — a broad-edged chisel for cutting plane surfaces on stones.
- plagiarising — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plagiaristic — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
- plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
- plain as day — obvious